Halo vs WordPress
Halo and WordPress are both CMS software. Halo is open source under GPL-3.0, with 40k GitHub stars. WordPress is open source under a license set out in its repository, with 22k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Halo when
- You want a WordPress-style site builder with a strong Chinese community and plugin market.
- Pick WordPress when
- You need a website that non-technical staff can edit and want the widest choice of hosts, themes, plugins and freelancers.
Side by side
A Java website builder and CMS for blogs, knowledge bases, company sites and small shops, with themes and plugins.
The PHP and MySQL content management system for websites and blogs, with the Gutenberg block editor and a very large ecosystem of themes and plugins; this repository is a read-only Git mirror of its Subversion repository.
Documentation and plugins are mostly Chinese, and some plugins and themes are paid.
Most security problems come from third-party plugins and themes, so keep them few and updated; contributions go to wordpress-develop, not this mirror.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript and Vue
PHP, JavaScript, MySQL and React
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Open source, license unclear on GitHub
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
GitHub could not read the license. Check it in the repository before reusing any code.
40k GitHub stars
22k GitHub stars
Established: started 8 years ago, latest release v2.27.2.
Established: started 15 years ago, no tagged release yet.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.